Ali Errishi's recent letter sounds as if we are
dealing with a patriotic regime in Libya. Nothing
could be more ridiculous or further from the truth.
The Qaddafi regime is not patriotic. It is utterly
treasonous because it has allowed the decimation and
degradation of Libyans and their wealth, culture, and
historical heritage. No patriotic regime would allow
this. This regime has enabled foreign powers to
deprive us of our dignity. When Qaddafi ceded an area
of southern Libyan territory to another country, he
forced our beloved country to abdicate its own
sovereignty. This ceded territory is five to six
times the size of Palestine. Additionally, Qaddafi's
regime has led to aggression against our country by
the United States. Through its terrorist policies,
Qaddafi's regime has led to 10 years of suffering
under economic and political sanctions. The Libyan
people have suffered immeasurably during this
nightmare, and we are the ones who have paid the price
for Qaddafi's sick policies.

Qaddafi's latest atrocity is his attempt to drive
Libyans out of their own nation and replace them with
people from neighboring countries. In his sick,
delusional mind, he believes that he can build his
empire this way. These are the flagrant policies of a
traitor and an enemy to the Libyan people. Qaddafi's
regime is like a foreign power occupying Libya.

Qaddafi ceded the land, stole our country's wealth,
and continually assaulted our dignity. He has made us
a joke everywhere in the world, a laughingstock.
Through his destruction, he has taken our country
backward by many years. So all of this proves beyond
a doubt that his regime is treasonous, not patriotic.
Any other conclusion would be absurd.

I could give volumes of solid evidence to prove what I
am saying, but rather than taking up time and space
for that, I will give the following example, which by
itself should suffice. In the late 1970s, Qaddafi
confiscated all private businesses, thus transforming
the Libyan populace into government employees. After
this, Qaddafi brought foreign companies to conduct
business in Libya--and his puppets, the so-called
General People's Committee, issued a regulation
prohibiting the hiring of any Libyan employees by
these foreign companies. In other words, all
employees of these foreign companies must be brought
in from other nations. When this decision was made,
Abuzaid Dorda and Mohammed Zweiy were members of the
so-called General People's Committee. A regime that
would promulgate such a twisted policy cannot be
patriotic. Qaddafi's regime amounts to foreign
occupation. This example by itself proves the
illegitimacy of his reign of terror. But there are
hundreds of other examples as well.

Furthermore, Qaddafi is not the only one responsible
for this nightmare. All of Qaddafi's henchmen share
responsibility for this tragedy. There are three
rings of bootlickers surrounding Qaddafi: (1) the
so-called Revolutionary Committees, including several
security organizations and the secret police; (2) the
technocrats and politicians working in the Ministries;
and (3) bottom- feeders such as informants, spies,
advocates, public relations operatives, and other
Qaddafi servants who work on image control. These
three groups share responsibility with Qaddafi for the
horrible tragedy that our country has endured over the
last 32 years.

The so-called Revolutionary Committees conduct the
interrogation, torture, oppression, and murder of our
people, throwing them in jail. They physically and
systematically liquidate Libyans both inside and
outside the country. Moreover, they are responsible
for planting bombs in airplanes and killing civilians
in other terrorist acts. They are literally
criminals. They even shot down a Libyan airplane full
of Libyan passengers.

The second ring, the politicians and technocrats, are
no less dangerous than the so-called Revolutionary
Committees. They support and promulgate the
propaganda of the regime and ensure its long life.
Through their consultations and ministrations, they
legitimize Qaddafi's atrocities and profit financially
as a result. They are the most despicable of
mercenaries because they cause the degradation of the
Libyan people.

Abuzaid Dorda and Mohammed Zweiy were two of the very
first members of this ring of politicians, and their
allegiance to Qaddafi's ludicrous notions continues to
this day. As Ambassador to the United Nations, Dorda
represents Qaddafi's autocratic empire, and Zweiy is
Qaddafi's Ambassador to the United Kingdom. This
circle of politicians also includes Abdul Rahman
Shelgum, who is Qaddafi's Foreign Minister.

The third ring of criminals surrounding Qaddafi, the
bottom-feeders, include people like Ali Errishi. He
pretends like he is operating independently of
Qaddafi's regime. This would be hilarious if the
consequences were not so tragic. Errishi is a
verminous fake. His lack of character allows him to
work for anyone and any cause that will result in his
profit. He is capable of working as a double agent
because he has no values, no morals, and no sense of
patriotism at all. He has no allegiance to anyone or
anything other than his own bank account and his lust
for small favors. He is seeking any gold nuggets that
he can dig out of the muck. In the early 1970s,
during a pro- Qaddafi rally in the city of Bengazi,
Errishi grabbed the microphone and said that he was
ready to dig up the ground with his own fingers for
the cause of the so-called revolution, meaning
Qaddafi's dictatorship. This event is recorded on
film. Errishi also said that he was ready to get on
his knees to the revolution and lick the feet of the
revolutionary (in other words, the feet of Qaddafi
himself). This is like Ali Sha'ari, who, when
speaking at a pro- Qaddafi rally, said he wished he
could be the horse on which Qaddafi would arrive.
People like this are nothing but toadies who will work
and advocate for any cause that benefits them
personally. Errishi assumes the tone of a healer and
a mediator in his recent letter, but he is nothing but
a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Here is further evidence of Errishi's duplicity: In
the mid- 1970s, he was sent by his masters to work as
an official employee in the Libyan Embassy in
Washington, D.C. Shortly after, they changed his
status to that of a student and assigned him to
infiltrate the anti-Qaddafi student movement. Thus,
when students stormed the Libyan Embassy in January of
1976 to manifest their solidarity with students inside
Libya, the Qaddafi regime terminated the scholarships
not only of those they deemed responsible for this
movement, but they also terminated Errishi's
scholarship to protect his identity as a Qaddafi
agent.

Errishi, we see through your disguise. You are not
the reasonable pragmatist that you want us to believe
you are. You are also not an altruist. You have done
nothing to help the Libyan people. You have only
helped Qaddafi and yourself. Your sheer lack of
militance in the face of tyranny is despicable and
treasonous. How can you accuse us of speculating in
conspiracy theories? What we are dealing with here is
far beyond the realm of mere conspiracy. It is a
full-blown dictatorship similar to Hitler's Germany.
How can you ignore this fact? Furthermore, even
Hitler advocated nationalism; Qaddafi has no concern
at all for Libya or the Libyan people. You speak as
if we are dealing with a normal government with
normalized relations with the world. We are not. We
are dealing with a primitive, backwards, nondemocratic
regime with utterly no regard for human rights. Your
attempt to defuse our hatred for Qaddafi by calling us
"conspiracy theorists" is an utterly adolescent
attempt at throwing out a red herring--in other words,
something designed to throw Qaddafi's opposition off
the track.

Furthermore, you are a fatalist. How can you
insinuate that nothing can be done about Qaddafi
himself? That's what you do when you distinguish
between "what ought to happen" and "what can happen."
In the struggle against tyranny, there is only one
honorable endeavor, and that is to overthrow the
tyrant! This cannot be accomplished through your
pusillanimous pussyfooting. You are not an
"independent private citizen," as you claim, and we
know it.

In spite of the magnitude of the Libyan disaster, we
will remain resolute in the face of oppression, and we
will not cease our struggle until we remove this
cancerous tumor from our polity and crush it! We will
overcome this ordeal and restore the rule of freedom,
democracy and human rights after all these lean years.
We will bring down this dictatorship and toss it on
the excrement pile of history.

Those responsible for supporting Qaddafi will
eventually be tried and judged by the law, and they
will suffer under the hand of God for their crimes.